by Chad Jardine | Dec 18, 2018 | Teacher Ed, Higher Education
The edtech stakes are high. Universities across the country drop big bucks on education technology tools. Recent reports put 2018 edtech spending for U.S. higher education at $12.8 billion. That’s a bit more than the annual GDP of Sierra Leone—and unfortunately much...
by Sara Ricords | Oct 19, 2018 | GoReact HQ, Higher Education, Psych
An estimated 61.5 million Americans experience mental illness each year. That’s one in every four adults—but only half that number seek treatment. Despite the growing need for psychological care, the resources available are not growing with the problem. Even in 2018,...
by GoReact | Feb 8, 2018 | Higher Education
Rubrics are a teacher’s best friend. They standardize assessments, reduce the load of grading, improve inter-rater reliability, and more. It’s no wonder rubrics claimed fifth place on our list of time-saving grading hacks. GoReact’s custom rubric builder allows you to...
by GoReact | Jan 31, 2018 | Teacher Ed, Featured, Higher Education
Sumter County, Alabama, ranks in the ten lowest counties for average household income in the U.S. It’s a region of the American South with a long history of economic struggle, going back to the cotton plantations that sprang up in the nineteenth century. This region...
by Chad Jardine | Nov 30, 2016 | Communication, Higher Education, Teacher Ed
It turns out getting feedback from others—especially others with a lot of expertise—can really accelerate your progress when you’re trying to learn something new or improve your skills. There’s some really great research about the value of feedback whether you...
by Austin Anderson | Nov 23, 2016 | Higher Education, Featured
Feedback is an intrinsic element of learning. In fact, some have claimed that a key purpose of higher education is fundamentally to facilitate high-quality feedback exchanges. Key skills and understanding don’t just spring up in students without input from an...
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